Skunk Bits

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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 09:54:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Paul W. Wisneskey" <pwwisnes@magenta.com>
To: Jim Brooking <jimb@access.digex.net>
Subject: Animals....

On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Jim Brooking wrote:

> Saw a guy in front of me kill a squirrel once.  He felt bad.  :)

About a year and half back I was on a ride with another fellow, Steve, on
his 600F2 and definitely a "calimari sin par".  We were going out to White
Rocks campground in southwest Virginia on a deserted back road.

At one point we hit a stretch that was straight, long, and smooth so wedecided to
open up our bikes to see what they could do.  I was up to 100(ran out of guts,
not bike :-), and Steve was doing about 130 (so he says).

As I'm just backing off the throttle I see Steve's taillight come on andthe back
end start shaking as he's braking really hard.  By the time Ipull up to him, he's
already stopped on the ride of the road and frantically trying to get his helmet
off.  Unfortunately, he wasn't fastenough and he threw up in his helmet.

I remember thinking "now why would he get sick?" and then the smell hit me. 
Apparently, Steve managed to hit a small skunk and send it right into his
radiator.  Since he was going so fast, it pretty much disintigrated into little
smelly chunks and began cooking immediately.

Needless, to say the smell was extreme - I just about tossed my cookies too.  The
best we can figure is that the skunk had already been hit and was squished on the
road and Steve somehow kicked it up because he doesn't remember feeling any
impact, just getting assailed by the smellall at once.

His radiator was a little bent but still sound.  Unfortunately, to this day the
bike still smells a little so we always make him ride last... :-)

Paul

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